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NEWARK, N.J. — Marshawn Lynch spent nearly 54 of the 60 minutes he was scheduled to speak at
yesterday’s Super Bowl media day standing against a curtain with a hood over his head and
sunglasses covering his eyes in an indoor arena.

Cameras remained focused on Lynch. Reporters occasionally tried to test his silence with
questions. Lynch, the Seattle Seahawks’ star running back, did not flinch. He was already fined
$50,000 this season for avoiding public comments — that fine was put on hold when he later spoke —
and he risked another fine if he did not participate yesterday. So Lynch took about six minutes of
questions and then waited for the clock to run out on the Seahawks session.

“I’m just about action,” Lynch said. “You say ‘hut’ and there’s action. All the unnecessary
talk, it don’t do nothing for me. I appreciate that people want to hear from me, but I just go to
work and do my thing. You feel me?”

Lynch said his fans love him regardless of whether he speaks. They just want to see him perform,
which Lynch has done since arriving in Seattle. He rushed for 1,257 yards and 12 touchdowns this
season and is the star of the Seahawks’ offense entering Sunday’s Super Bowl against the Denver
Broncos.

“I heard he did six great minutes,” Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said of Lynch’s comments. “Some
comedians make a career out of that.”

While Lynch stood idle, fans who paid admission to the Prudential Center ran toward the seats
behind Lynch and threw items for him to autograph. Lynch obliged for a few minutes, then returned
to waiting out the clock.

“They came to watch people get interviewed?” Lynch said earlier. “This is amazing right here,
man.”

Shiny Bronco

No one was glittering on media day more than Denver’s Malik Jackson.

The defensive end wore a diamond-encrusted grillz across his lower teeth, which brought requests
for photos.

He gladly posed for everyone.

“I just wanted to dress the place up a bit,” Jackson said. “If I had known it was going to draw
this much attention, I probably wouldn’t have worn it. But it’s been a lot of fun.”

High-tech Seahawk

Seattle receiver Golden Tate showed up at media day wearing Google Glass and a camera on his
hat.

“I thought it would be a great idea to try to film my experience through my eyes, literally
through my eyes, for the 12s,” Tate said, referring to the Seahawks “12th Man” fans. “I figured
this would be a small way for me to give back and for the people that aren’t able to make it out,
they can see this.

Weather update

Much has been made of the weather leading up to the Super Bowl.

While temperatures plunged into the teens yesterday, and there was a chance of flurries
extending into today, the forecast for game day surely has NFL officials feeling a cautious sense
of giddiness: partly cloudy with a high of 39 degrees.